Par meet on retail FDI, expert tells you what to expect: HT

The first few days of the Parliament were a no-go because of the tussle on a debate on a FDI in retail but today at 1 pm an all party meet is expected and hopefully some consensus will be sought and found.

Also read: All party meet to resolve Parliament deadlock over FDI Below is the edited transcript of Vinod Sharma, political edidor, Hindustan Times’ interview to CNBC-TV18. Q: Will the government manage to get some of its allies on its side and then go for a vote or do you think some agreement will be reached upon outside the Parliament?
A: We can only predict about what will happen in the Parliament is based on what happened yesterday and not what will happen today. All-party meeting is a meeting of a bigger group. 
Individually, the government has reached out to the Opposition and some of its allies and if there is no consensus on the procedures that have to be followed for a debate on SBI then I think the only option left for the government is to persuade some of its outside partners to abstain at the time of voting while making their point.
The Opposition is unlikely to fragile from its position. The Opposition has made it very clear their strategy today is to embarrass the government and pull it down. One cannot grant them that strategy but at the same time one cannot also grudge the ruling party strategy to have a vote and yet escape any kind of embarrassment. If there is a vote and the government losses that vote on the floor of the House then morally and politically it will stand and it will have great problems pursuing FDI in multi brand retail policy.
Although the provisions that are been brought before the Parliament, will be discussed in the Parliament rather we are giving freedom to individual states to have it or not. To that extent, some degree of experimentation is required in this country. I think that certain states should follow the policy and it should be used as a pilot projects for educating other sates, if it is a good or bad policy.